Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. I. Packer

There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.

Italo Calvino

Whether there is such a thing as Reality, of which the various levels are only partial aspects, or whether there are only levels, is something that literature cannot decide. Literature recognizes rather the *reality of the levels.*

Isabelle Huppert

It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more concerned about your inner feelings, or your work.

Ira Sachs

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

Jack Nicholson

There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny - nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I suppose.

Jack Johnson

We've all got the blood on our hands, we only receive what we demand.

Jack Kerouac

You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.

Jack Black

The greatest gift in life is the ability to think great thoughts and have the strength to take action so that those thoughts become reality in this wonderful and abundant world.

J. C. Watts

I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

J. C. Ryle

There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.

Isabel Allende

Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers.

Isabel Allende

She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.

Isabel Allende

I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation. The thought terrified me. I was consoled by the idea that I could take that gelatin and mold it to create anything I wanted...At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

Isabel Allende

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.

Irving Howe

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Greg Evigan

I'm a tek addict myself. No matter where you are, people are looking for something to tear them away from reality, challenge their state of mind.

Greg Fitzsimmons

We are now able to create virtual realities on computers. Are we all living in one created by someone in the future?

Greg Giraldo

The reality is I'm not a 'get knocked down and come back harder' kind of guy.

Greg Gutfeld

Fact is, the desperate desire to be cool has skewed our culture toward nihilism, carelessness, and ineptitude. It is now cool to be an idiot. A jackass. It's cool to be a failure, as long as your failure is the basis for a reality show.

Glenn Gould

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

Gerry Rafferty

This city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.

Georgette Mosbacher

Reality is the only place you can deal from. If you're still worrying about the way things should be, you haven't even approached the starting line.

Harry Chapin

Reality is only just a word.

Harry Browne

The marketplace is a wondrous institution. It harnesses the self-interest of each of us and puts it to work for the benefit of all. And it does so without intruding upon our desires, our privacy, or our freedom. It is regulation by reality, not by coercion.

Gwen John

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

Wolfgang Petersen

In reality, I think there aren't really such things as "bad guys" and "good guys.

but the reality is that the world is transformed by it, but we, unfortunately, remain the same.

John Gray

Do we have any say? The reality is you're going to pay.

Robert Kiyosaki

The boundaries of a person's reality often do not change until that person forsakes what he or she feels confident in and then goes blindly with faith.

There is only God. REALITY is God and has never required your belief. This reality no "one" survives. In Ultimate Reality no "one" is saved either - there is simply nothing to save you "from" : you have not emerged from any "other" and there is no place else for "you" to disappear into. Ever.

Stephen Jay Gould

Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing" cedes directly to the imagination. How can we draw "evolution" or "social organization," not to mention the more mundane "digestion" or "self-interest," without portraying more of a mental structure than a physical reality? If we wish to trace the history of ideas, iconography becomes a candid camera trained upon the scholar's mind.

Stephen Jay Gould

No more harmful nonsense exists than [the] common supposition that deepest insight into great questions about the meaning of life or the structure of reality emerges most readily when a free, undisciplined, and uncluttered (read, rather, ignorant and uneducated) mind soars above mere earthly knowledge and concern.

Abraham Lincoln

The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.